IBM Data Science Professional Certificate | Applied Data Science Capstone

Peer-graded Assignment: Capstone Project Notebook's

Course Contents

Week 1 - Introduction to Capstone Project

• Introduction to Capstone Project
• Learning about the capstone project and the different tools and skills that you will learn in this course.
• Learning about the different location data providers and what location data is composed of.
• Learning how to sign up on Watson Studio, and how to create a project, start a notebook, and share the notebook.
• Creating a project on Watson Studio, create a project, start a notebook and share it with your peers.
• Location Data Providers
• Signing-up for a Watson Studio Account
• Peer-review Assignment: Capstone Project Notebook

Week 2 - Foursquare API

• Learning about Foursquare and its API.
• Learning how to create a Foursquare developer account.
• Creating a Foursquare developer account.
• Learning how to use the Foursquare API to search for a specific type of venues, explore a given venue, and search for trending venue around a location.
• Completing a lab to better understand how to make calls to the Foursquare API and retrieve location data from its database.
• Getting Foursquare API Credentials
• Using Foursquare API
• Lab: Foursquare API
• Quiz: Foursquare API

Week 3 - Neighborhood Segmentation and Clustering

• Learning about clustering and k-means clustering in particular.
• Learning how to use the Foursquare API and clustering to segment and cluster the neighborhoods in New York City.
• Learning how to use the Beautifulsoup Python package to scrape websites and parse HTML code.
• Applying the skills acquired so far in this course to segment and cluster neighborhoods in the city of Toronto.
• Clustering
• Lab: Clustering
• Lab: Segmenting and Clustering Neighborhoods in New York City
• Peer-review Assignment: Segmenting and Clustering Neighborhoods in Toronto

Week 4 - Capstone Project

• Define a problem for your capstone project.
• Discuss the data that you will use to solve the problem.
• Peer-graded Assignment: Capstone Project - The Battle of Neighborhoods (Week 1)

Week 5 - Capstone Project (Cont'd)

• Carry out the remaining work to complete the capstone project.
• Submit a link to your project notebook and a complete project report.
• Peer-graded Assignment: Capstone Project - The Battle of Neighborhoods (Week 2)